Zatrick Webber, 28, of Maysville, was arrested Tuesday by the Jones County Sheriff’s Office and charged with felony child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Webber is accused of injuring his son using a belt. Investigator Brian Pacilli said warrants charge Webber with inflicting injuries causing the tearing away of flesh on the buttocks, arms, torso and back and raised ligature and contusions about the body.

Pacilli said the child’s mother and father are either divorced or separated, and the alleged beating occurred while the boy was staying with his father last week.

When the boy returned home to his mother, he initially indicated that he was hurt playing football. His mother immediately took him the hospital Sunday after her son complained of a lot of pain, Pacilli said.

Onslow Memorial Hospital reported the injuries to Jacksonville Police Department, which turned over the information to the Jones County Sheriff’s Office after it was determined Webber lived there.

Webber was taken into custody and placed in the Jones County Jail under a bond of $125,500. Of the total bond amount, $500 is for an unrelated failure to appear charge for driving while license revoked.

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